Calibration Services
Need your pipettes calibrated yesterday?
Our ISO 17025 accredited pipette calibration program provides the quality and expertise required, with a fast, next-day turnaround, all to minimize your measurement errors and downtime. Transcat can deliver the most reliable and accurate calibrations, quickly and conveniently. We support the ongoing operations of many of the world’s leading academic, biotech, and pharmaceutical labs and ensures their pipettes perform according to specifications.
Find the Right Pipette Calibration Solution for Your Lab
Choose the calibration program, service level, and delivery option that best supports your laboratory's quality requirements and workflow.
Why Transcat
At Transcat our scientific staff maintains an ISO 17025-accredited measurement laboratory and quality system. Our focus is compliance to the piston pipette calibration standard, ISO 8655. Learn more about Transcat.
Quality Program
At Transcat, our doors are open to the scientific community we service. Our Boston, MA laboratory is ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited calibration. We provide calibrations traceable to the NIST. Discover Our Quality Program.
Calibration Service Types
Our comprehensive service options are designed to meet your lab's requirements with unmatched flexibility and precision. Choose the service option that best meets your requirements: mail-in, in-lab, or courier. Explore Our Service Types.
Calibration Services Levels
We offer multiple levels of calibration for single channel pipettes and multichannel pipettes. Choose the level that is most applicable to your quality and business needs. Find the Service Level You Need.
Fast, Reliable Pipette Calibration Services
Downtime impacts productivity. Our ISO-accredited calibration programs are designed to provide accurate, traceable results with industry-leading turnaround times and flexible service options. Here’s why more customers choose Transcat to calibrate their pipettes:
- ISO/IEC 17025 accredited calibration
- Traceable to SI units through NIST
- Next-day service options available
- Mail-in and on-site calibration services
- Support for GMP, GLP, CAP, CLIA, and FDA-regulated environments
- Comprehensive documentation and reporting
What Is Included in a Pipette Calibration Service?
Our calibration services are designed to verify pipette performance, support compliance requirements, and help maintain long-term measurement accuracy.
Services may include:
- Performance testing and calibration
- Preventive maintenance and cleaning
- Pipette inspection and evaluation – we can even quote repair services using qualified replacement components as needed
- Adjustment and optimization, when required
- Detailed calibration documentation and certificates
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Pipette Calibration, Repair and Preventative Maintenance (PM)
On-Site Pipette Calibration Services from Transcat
Transcat’s on-site pipette calibration services help laboratories reduce downtime while maintaining compliance and quality. When you choose this service type, our highly trained technicians perform calibrations on-site at your facility.
On-site service at-a-glance:
- Same traceable, compliant calibration standards
- Turnaround times are dependent on technician scheduling and availability
- Requires coordinated on‑site scheduling, at least 30 days in advance
- Calibration capabilities as allowed by portable tool setup, limited repair capabilities
- Ideal for equipment that can’t leave site, less stringent test tolerances
- Costs can be higher due to travel and time technicians spend on‑site
Mail-In Pipette Calibration Services from Transcat
With Transcat’s Mail-In pipette calibration services, your pipettes are serviced in our state-of-the-art, fully equipped calibration laboratory, and send back to your lab within 3-5 days. Quick and easy.
Mail-in service at-a-glance:
- Same traceable, compliant calibration
- Flexible schedule - ship out your pipettes whenever they’re ready for service
- Full lab instrumentation and reference standards, plus full repair capabilities during service
- Ideal for customers with multiple pipettes, predictable timelines, or highly regulated laboratory environments
- Costs are often lower than with on-site service
Why Measurement Uncertainty Matters
Every calibration includes a degree of measurement uncertainty. Lower uncertainty improves confidence in measurement results and helps laboratories maintain reliable testing processes.
Our calibration procedures utilize controlled environments, gravimetric methods, and established quality controls to support accurate and repeatable measurements.
Accreditation, Compliance, and Quality Assurance
Transcat supports the complex needs of regulatory environments meet even the most stringent quality requirements with calibration services designed to support:
- ISO 17025 quality systems
- ISO 8655 requirements
- GMP and GLP environments
- CAP and CLIA laboratories
- FDA-regulated operations
All of our calibration programs are designed to help laboratories maintain confidence not just in their measurement systems, but across their documentation processes as well.
Ready to Schedule Pipette Calibration?
Whether you need accredited calibration, preventive maintenance, micropipette repair, or nationwide on-site support, our team can help identify the right service program for your laboratory.
Or give us a call 800-242-6022 and move up to a metrology-based Transcat pipette calibration service.